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By Alan Folger
I shouldn’t have been surprised that night falls so late and dawn comes so quickly on Slough Creek. With its northern latitude, and the fact that we were there during the Summer Solstice, I should have expected it. What I didn’t expect was to be wakened by a howling timber wolf.
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Satterlee Creek, an intermittent stream in Bradford County, Pa., is one that has been named and claimed by the community.
“Oh, that must be Fishing Creek.”
If you’re crossing a bridge somewhere in Pennsylvania, it’s a pretty safe answer if someone asks you, “What stream is that?”
I’ve never done... [ READ MORE... ]

Alex Puchalski with a nice Salmon River steelhead. Puchalski, 18, is the first winner of TU's monthly TroutBlitz contests that run through October.
By Chris Hunt
Alex Puchalski cut his angling teeth chasing bass, pickerel and panfish around his East Rutherford, N.J., home, and graduated to the... [ READ MORE... ]

Green Team members (left to right) DeAnna Clum, Claire Gault, Sam Burgess and Beckett Vigh plant a native buffer on Rum Creek.
By Jamie Vaughn
Last month, the Rogue River Home Rivers Initiative in Michigan hired eight high school students to form a “Green Team” to install and maintain green... [ READ MORE... ]

After working for Trout Unlimited for eight years, one thing I know to be true is that TU members often share their passion for conservation and fishing with their spouses, partners and children. I certainly do. This image is of my daughter's first fish. Her rod was given to her by the TU Utah... [ READ MORE... ]

The second annual STREAM Girls event was held on June 19th and 20th, in Wisconsin's Jordan Park, along the Plover River. It is a collaborative event between Trout Unlimited and the Girl Scouts of America, and we were very excited to get our girls involved and learning about water once again!
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At 2:30 a.m. in Soda Springs, I rolled through a right turn at a red light and soon learned “We don’t do ‘California Stops’ in Idaho.” … or so said the police officer who pulled me over pretty much immediately. Fortunately, I had made the slow rolling turn into the broad beams of the officer’s... [ READ MORE... ]

Video of #somestreamerchick episode 6: The 11-Mile Challenge
By Abbi Bagwell
Have you ever walked 11 miles? Driven 11 miles?
I mean, realistically, it would probably take me a full day (maybe a little longer?) to walk 11 miles, but probably less than seven minutes to drive it. (Shhhh! Don’t... [ READ MORE... ]

Today marks the last day of regional meetings in 2015. This is particularly bittersweet for me this year, as I write this note from the runway in Cheyenne, Wyo. where the airline decided to re-route us due to severe weather. Another night in a Denver airport hotel is about the last thing I had in... [ READ MORE... ]

Bristol Bay River & Guide Academy students setting goals for the week. Photo by Rich Johnson
By: Jenny Lynes
“I would love to have somebody from this Academy on my guide staff.”
Pete Raynor, manager of Kulik Lodge laid out a challenge to the incoming class of the Bristol Bay River & Guide... [ READ MORE... ]